posted 08-16- 08:59 PM               

I take a bomb, and change it's type to CRocket instead of CBomb, and name it as a new weapon.. add it to the startup ppf.. now I have a bomb that can be put on a rocket mount, so what you say (well some of you), well, the ripple works with rockets, you can launch one from each mount instead of all, so by doing this I should be able to have a minimal realease of one/two bombs instead of like 12 at once, allowing us to make multiple bomb runs.

Ofcourse, this would only work for multiple launchers, say if you had the P38 rocket mount, you could put 3 of them on an aircraft, and drop only 3 bombs on a pass instead of 24.

I'm try this out tomorrow night, but if you have any thoughts/comments please post them

~Nat~

posted 08-17- 12:26 PM               

For separate drops, the only choices you have, AFAIK, are the rocket pylons, bomb pylons, and bomb bay. Ripple will allow you to drop a series of weapons, but not two separate drops off of the same "type" pylon.

What MAY be possible is to define another weapon type other than 'bomb and 'rocket, like, say, 'smallbomb or 'torpedo or 'missile. That MIGHT allow you to set up multiple hardpoints that could be separately released.

posted 08-17- 06:15 PM               

But as far as "separate" release points go, I'm pretty sure you're limited to three "drops." You can drop all rocket objects at once, all bomb pylon objects at once, and all bomb bay objects at once (and you can modify "at once" by using the ripple settings).

But in terms of dropping just the left pylon, or right pylon, or 2 bombs at a time from the bay, I don't think so. You might be able to create multiple bomb bays, but I still bet you can't drop from em separately.

But I'd LOVE to be wrong about this Right now the only way to drop the wing bombs on the SBD separate from the center bomb is to call em rockets (which is fun, but looks very silly) or make the center bomb a bomb bay weapon (which will hide it).

posted 08-17- 10:46 PM               

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posted 08-18- 03:32 AM               

Ju88's, Gliding bombs etc.

All of these used the breaking dof principle. If you mapped say 4 keys to operate four breaking dof's, you could drop four bombs from four pylons.....if you see what I mean.

If the bomb were an object with a warhead, rather than a 'bomb', you could still use the existing hardpoint bombs as well.

This may work.....

posted 08-18- 11:57 AM            

Try this:

On entering mission, arm and select your pilon bombs and press "BACKSPACE" once. Then drop your bomb. One pilon will release and the remainder won't. Then reselect pilons (press 4 then 5). You can now drop the remaining ordinance.

Unfortunately I have found this doesn't work 100% correctly. I think you should be able to press backspace again to select the remaining pilons. It may be a problem with the loadouts not designed to handle this but then again who knows. The AI can do this so it may also be a keyboard command problem. Of course it could be a code problem too.